MODIFICATION
A -- Integrated Command & Control
- Notice Date
- 2/6/2014
- Notice Type
- Modification/Amendment
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL/RIK - Rome, 26 Electronic Parkway, Rome, New York, 13441-4514, United States
- ZIP Code
- 13441-4514
- Solicitation Number
- BAA-10-01-RIKA
- Point of Contact
- Gail E. Marsh, Phone: 315-330-7518
- E-Mail Address
-
Gail.Marsh@us.af.mil
(Gail.Marsh@us.af.mil)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- The purpose of this modification is to add a new specific focus area for FY14 to SECTION I-FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION. No other changes have been made. SPECIFIC FOCUS AREA FOR FY14: Operation Plan Automated Reasoning and Maintenance: The objective of this work is to advance the state of the art related to representing, storing, retrieving, reasoning over, adapting, and maintaining operation plans (OPLANs). Current deliberative planning efforts result in extensive operational plans that represent a snapshot of the world state and are reviewed and adjusted only on a set review cycle or when required in the event of a crisis. Rarely does such a plan remain up-to-date with the many changes to personnel, equipment, and world events. The process to keep these plans up-to-date and relevant is very manual and labor intensive. Because of this, when these plans are retrieved, they often require extensive re-planning efforts that rival those of crisis action planning. Development of successful reasoning capabilities for management and maintenance of operation plans requires three research challenges to be addressed: i) Determination of a principled approach for representing OPLANs, including identifying features to support machine reasoning; ii) Developing similarity metrics and algorithms to compare operation plans and plan fragments to existing plans and fragments; iii) methods for selecting appropriate plan and plan fragments as alternative suggestions and adapting them to the current situation. Interest in this area is restricted to support for model-free approaches to addressing these challenges; i.e. there should be minimal or no reliance on analytical or other models of world behavior. This research should emphasize reuse of previous plans and plan fragments. The work shall consist of two sequential phases: development and specification of a digital representation of OPLANs, and the development of algorithms and methods for computationally operating on OPLANS thus represented. The government is not currently in a position to provide data for this project. Prospective offerors must be able to source their own data sets and archives necessary to support development and demonstration of their technology. While white papers and proposals are required to be unclassified, it is acceptable for research and experiments to be performed in classified environments and for the domains and scenario data to be classified as well. The offeror is responsible for providing appropriately cleared facilities and people for performance of the proposed research. It is anticipated that awards for this particular topic will not exceed 12 months with dollar amount ranging from $350,000-$400,000. Any questions regarding this focus area should be directed to Kurt Lachevet, 315-330-2896. White papers for this topic only will be due by: 28 February 2014. Please email your white papers to: kurt.lachevet@us.af.mil.
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